Reasons for Youth Sport Dropout from Organized Sport: The Case Of Ethiopian Youth Sport Academy Athlete Tirunesh Dibaba Sport Training Center

International audienceAthlete Tirunesh Dibaba Sports Training Centre was established in 2009 at Asela (Arsi) under Ethiopian Sports Commission's Sports Academy, establishing programs intending to supply young competitive athletes to the national federations. But trainees with promising performance have been observed leaving from the training centre before they have reached their top performance. From the personal experience of the author, who has been working in this institution as a coach for five years, a high number of trainees are leaving the Centre before they finish their training years and no longer continue their training. What are the main causes leading young Ethiopian promising athletes to drop out from organized sport involvement? In this paper, number of possible factors for dropout has been evaluated, following a comprehensive fieldwork collection of data which include interviews with coaches, with the training centers' medical team and the trainees, but also questionnaires and analysis of secondary data organized by the registrar of the training centre about the trainees